woohoo!!!

i am officially done teaching for now. my last day was thursday with the kids and i went in for a bit on friday to clean up the room. i am sad to leave my kids and will really miss being a teacher, but the flip side is so much more exciting to me. i have been waiting so long to be a mom and brandon and i are moving into our new house. i fell like our life together is starting now. so many exciting and stressful events right now. i will be off line for a bit until we get settled and get internet at the new house. i will be posting some pictures of a brandon and i at our friends wedding last weekend hopefully soon, by belly finally looks like a baby bump!

i jinxed it...

well i went 3 weeks without puking and made the mistake of saying the worst was over, and then yesterday we started all over again. i am hoping it was a one day deal, but today was pretty crappy too. cross your fingers!!!!

Brandon felt the baby!!!

FINALLY, brandon felt the baby move last night before we went to bed. he was very excited and said he couldn't even explain how he was feeling. i know he has been waiting to feel it for so long. it is probably even more real then before for him. we are past half way ad the excitement is building, of course we don't have much time to think about it since we are so busy fixing up the new house, packing the old house, and i am trying to finish this school year on a good note with the kids.

i think i have said it before but i can;t even believe how much i already love this baby. i am going to be a hot mess in the delivery room i am sure!

not much to update

nothing much is happening with the baby right now. we will be moving on may 31st so i am a bit stressed with packing, ending the school year, getting the new house ready, and oh ya growing this little human in me!!! i have gone about 2.5 weeks without throwing up, that is amazing to me! i still get nauseous and gaggy at times but i can handle that. i feel the baby alot and at the right time i think others could feel it on the outside. brandon is waiting anxiously to feel it, he gets so bummed when he can't, i think it is cute!

not much else to report

19 weeks

that's our baby!!!! It posed great for all the pictures the doctor needed!! during the ultrasounds it was on it's side and moving like crazy. It even scratched it's butt!!! so cute. it was so amazing to see our little baby. the femur bone is only 1 inch long to give you an idea of how tiny it still is. totally amazing though. the tech was able to see if it was a boy or girl but she did not tell us. she said some parents give in half way through, but not us. never even questioned her.

the baby's heart beat was 150, it is in the 57 percentile for growth which is right in the middle. the doctor says it is growing perfectly right now and she was very happy with the development. the only concern was with me. apparently my placenta is too low right now. it can still move but it is lower then she would like at this point. i have to get it checked again at 28 weeks. i am not to concerned. it can not hurt the baby at all it could just mean i would need to have a c-section. if it does not move to a certain distance ( i don't remember what that was) from the cervix then i can not even try a vaginal birth. we will just have to see at 28 week where we are. the baby was measuring exactly on the due date of sept 29th, i still think and have from the start that it will come in oct. but i could be wrong. that is the major reason i really want my placenta to move up, i don;t want to know when it will be coming ahead of time, i want the surprise!

other then that all is well, she was not concerned with my headaches and star sighting! she told me i could take Tylenol if i wanted, if i find that was not working there were other pills she could prescribe. this baby hates medicine though so for now i will just tough it out. my blood pressure is consistently great so she isn't worried.

all is well. it will be so hard to wait to meet this little baby now that i have seen it. i already love it so much and after seeing it even more, i can't even imagine what a mess i will be when i finally get to hold it. so crazy how pregnancy works, it is just amazing to me that i could grow this little human in there.

update

well, we bought a house...that is a big update. it is in Columbus and our families are helping us out to get it all ready to move in by may 31st. i unfortunately can't really do much, which is driving me crazy! i really want to be a part of all the work but the fumes are not good for me right now and with my energy level i would probably work for 5 min and rest for 30!!!

baby update: i am definitely feeling the baby moving. no one can feel it on the outside yet but probably not too ling till they can. i know brandon will love that, he always loves to see and feel our friends bellies when their babies are moving. i will have to get used to it i guess, we all know how much i like to be touched!

i have gained about 8-10 pounds so far. i am not totally sure, but i went off the most consistent weight i had before i got pregnant. i will ask the doctors what numbers they have when i go on wed. their scale always weighs me bigger though...not fun!

i hate to write it because i will probably jinx myself but, i am feeling better most days now. still some morning sickness and headaches but that i can handle. the all day food pukes i can not! i am going to ask about my headaches on wed. they are getting very frequent and intense and i have seen starts more then a few times now, i just want to make sure all is well with blood pressure and such. it happens so randomly i cannot pinpoint a reason. i am also experiencing lovely leg cramping and a very annoying side pain. oddly enough tonia has had the same pain for all her pregnancies, i was glad to hear i was not alone. it feels like my muscles are ripping off my ribs sometimes.

other then that not much happening. i will post after the appt. wed. we will have a good ultrasound picture to share.